first nail

We've been moved in over three weeks

and just today was I able to put the first nail in the wall.

Somehow it seems a desecration

but really,

the walls do need some decorations.

Appropriately,

this flying blue heron was the first to go up. 

It soars above the windows

in our bedroom painted gray.

There will be more nails,

but this was the first.

I think he looks really good up there.

Eye report....

Three years ago,

at a very traumatic time in my life,

I almost lost the sight in my left eye.

I had a vein occlusion

which led to a shot in the eye

which led to my eye getting infected 

which led to eye surgery

which led to a very scary three or four weeks 

of not seeing at all out of my left eye.

Today I went for an exam,

there have been many of them between then and now.

I have some sight,

but I cannot see to read at all

out of the left eye.

I had always held out hope that my eyesight would be restored.

Today,

the doctor told me that it was stable, 

but it would never get any better.

I am so thankful that I can see perfectly out of my right eye....

don't even need prescription glasses.

Think I'll go sit on the back porch 

and watch this storm blow in...

so thankful that I can.